Test on Gambling Addiction

Everybody at some point of their life must find themselves in the center of noisy gambling room, full of people who are ready to spend their savings on a little hope for easy money. Why do people chase these kind of places? Nobody, really knows, may be you a guy who look for attraction from beautiful ladies that respect fat wallet (like ones presented in photo on the left), or may be just opportunity of easy cash is an idea that stuck in your brain at the moment. Whatever reasons are, people of all ages, races, ethnicities connected with the same place called Casino, where they spend their nights. Personally I never was interested in such a games following my dad's old-school principles, but however have seen lots of strangers and close to me people play gambling games and lose decent amounts, but with this money they also tent to lose their smiles, and happy moods. How people lose their self-control so radically? Even if someone would answer this question, we average people not involved in science, probably wouldn't understand it. However we know that like 96 plus percent of population are not affected by "addiction", and they can bet without feelings of - anxiety, depression or sleeping disorders, that accompany gambling addiction.

Probably that's why Cambridge Health Alliance came up with this test that have 4-questions and works as interactive widget that can define your own gambling behaviour.

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Christine Reilly, senior research director for the National Center for Responsible Gambling implied that: "Gambling is very parallel to alcohol use," making people to alienate from friends and family, lose jobs and money, making it really serious problem to consider.

So, defining the problem is always the first step, after you know what the problem is, it's easier to control it. Just always remember to keep yourself in check: never spend more than amount you wanted to spend, never gamble with strangers and no late gambling. Thank you and live positive ;)

China have a lifestyle problems! Internet cafes in China ;)

Like on a picture, being asian I've been spending most of my free time in childhood playing computer games like Quake, Counter Strike, War Craft and of course Star Wars (not the second one which was made in 3D). Gathering with my group of friends in the nearest Internet Cafe, we were spending hours and sometimes even nights playing Co-Op games. Nowadays in Asia, in this type of places you can find players representing both genders and all kinds of different age categories, starting from early ages like 7, till the random more matured age like 40. I even remember when I've met a guy who was celebrating his 29th birthday in the internet cafe I've been visiting like 2 years ago. He had a hot-dog and soda with his friend, had a little love from his girlfriend who came around for half an hour, and he was able to drink alcohol in the internet cafe too. So basically he had normal birthday in the internet cafe, he've been doing his favorite thing, was playing video games all day, had love from his friends, nothing special. So basically there is amount of people who share this lifestyle in Asia. Socializing, playing video games in the internet cafe. The only question is: Is it right? Is it right in terms of health?


Reading post about this type of problem in China, it says that the Chinese government is taking steps to curb the amount of time kids spend in these environments. "The cafe is a physical place where friendships are negotiated face-to-face," says ethnographer and sociologist Tricia Wang. "If the government wants kids to spend less time in Internet cafes, they should think about building more public spaces for low-income families." So, that means having parks and more public places would reduce the amount of kids visiting internet cafes, however would it effect grown people? Is it too late to change lifestyle of these mature people in Asia? This question makes me to think about my own lifestyle, and think about reducing my time spending on computer, even though I don't play no more video games after finishing all possible computer games about Star Wars saga ;) Think about how video games effect you leisure time and if you really want to spend most of your time in the front of monitor. Think carefully, take care of your own health and live positive ;)